One more link thread: Post links to homepages for the various image board memes.

http://nijiura-os.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ - The OS-tan page.
http://musu-waha.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ - Waha, Musu, Choia, and other classic 2chan memes.
http://www.medoilove.net/ - Medoi the maid.
http://kororinu.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ - The Coronu/Corinu/etc girls. Long-lived meme.

Ai-chan (the Pencil Girl) Archive
http://www.geocities.jp/ein_drei_funf/ai-chan/index.html

> http://kazumi386.org:9801/barrageshot/tori/tori01.htm - Original image, and tons of followups.

There's more here:
http://kazumi386.org:9801/barrageshot/toriT/index.html

Follow from here:
http://kazumi386.org:9801/barrageshot/

Or here:
http://barrageshot.hp.infoseek.co.jp/index.html

For me:

http://kazumi386.org/~nijigen/

>>56 seems to have become password protected

Anyone know the required data or where to look it up?

>>62

The error page tells you what the login and password are. They are obviously doing this to lessen server load, so I am not sure explaining it directly here is a great idea.

>>62
>>63

I'm really sad now.

>>63
What about a hint? The automated translation of excite.co.jp isn't helping much... Something about romaji and windstill sea?

Say, what the heck is ")ry"? I see that combination of characters a lot.

>>67 wwwww

>>67 "etc."

3characters of "(ryaku)".
It means "omit".

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/

>>73
No.

age

Is there a site where memes, their origin, initial growth and later widespread usage is looked at in depth and it provides screencaps, preferably many, from different people as proof?

Not really, >>77.

>>77
See:
>>73

http://www.sexwithex.com

>>77
Not really.

All are more or less incomplete or suffer from other side-effects, most notably >>73 needs to be taken with a grain of salt if you are not actually familiar with the subject yourself, because the quality and depth of articles fluctuate a lot.

Wikichan used to be really well rounded, but the guy who ran it is an incompetent retard, and tl;dr it's gone now, but meanwhile he lifted everything resembling advice, stripped out all the imageboard culture references, and turned it into this ad-shoveling shithole: http://www.wellcultured.com/

I guess there's been an attempt to revive it lately at http://wikichan.net/ but it's woefully incomplete. (for example http://wikichan.net/7chan is entirely lacking in the long history behind the site's existence, some background on the admins, etc. that the old wikichan used to have)
With any luck and competent administration maybe that site could be restored to its former glory, it used to have a lot of great stuff, and it was largely void of the stupidity of ED.

There's also http://www.lurkmore.com/ but it's also woefully incomplete and appears to have been more or less abandoned. I don't know how worthwhile the content is, either.

http://knowyourmeme.com/

I'd be interested to know people's thoughts on this site

>>83
Seems to be missing the vast majority of old memes, and has incomplete or just plain wrong information for others. For example: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lol-internet says it started on YTMND, which is absolutely wrong. The entry on desu doesn't even mention the DESU DESU DESU spamming, there's no Porkslope, no harbl, no Awesome Cougars, no Bix Nood... but there's pages and pages of stuff about Youtube, Facebook, and YTMND. I guess it's mostly the memes that either "leaked" from 4chan or started outside of imageboards.

>>84

Documenting memes is tricky because they naturally evolve as they spread. It's simply a question of when and where the person first discovered it. That, and they're ultimately unimportant, so there's very little interest in spending hours searching further except for the most dedicated of Internet Addicts.

Imagine if we're getting these things wrong in the digital age, how much misinformation must exist in the history books.